1918 Danish Folketing election

Election for the lower house of Danish Parliament Denmark 1915 April 1920 All 140 seats in the Folketing 71 22 April 1918 Klaus Berntsen Venstre (Denmark) 43 45 29.41 Thorvald Stauning Social Democrats (Denmark) 32 39 28.66 Carl Theodor Zahle Danish Social Liberal Party 31 32 20.67 Emil Piper Conservative People's Party (Denmark) New 22 18.29 Industry Party New 1 1.30 – Independents 0 1 0.40 Prime Minister Carl Theodor Zahle Danish Social Liberal Party Carl Theodor Zahle Danish Social Liberal Party Folketing1918.svg Folketing elections were held in Denmark on 22 April 1918,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p524 978-3-8329-5609-7 the first in which women could vote. The result was a victory for Venstre, which won 45 of the 140 seats in the Folketing, which had been expanded from 114 to 140 seats. Voter turnout was 75.5%.Nohlen & Stöver, p537 Electoral system The Folketing was elected by rural–urban proportional representation. Copenhagen had 24 members elected by party-list proportional representation using the d'Hondt system, while in the rest of the country 93 members (42 in the Danish Islands and 51 in Jutland) were elected in single-member constituencies using first-past-the-post voting. There were a further 23 leveling seats to make the results more proportional.Saby R. S. 1919 Danish Parliamentary Elections of 1918 https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S000305540001635X/type/journal_article American Political Science Review en 13 4 656–662 10.2307/1944222 0003-0554 1944222 subscription Of the 23 leveling seats, twenty (nine in the islands and eleven in Jutland) were allocated on a regional basis, and three (one in the islands and two in Jutland) were allocated based on the nationwide vote (including Copenhagen). The allocation of candidates to leveling seats was based on a best-loser rule, using a form of Scorporo; in each single-member constituency a Hare quota of votes for the appropriate region was subtracted from the winner's votes and the remainders were pooled at a county level. The candidates with the highest proportion of the votes relative to the region's Hare quota were allocated the leveling seats. The 1918 elections were the only ones in Danish history to feature this mixed system.The Parliamentary Electoral System in Denmark https://web.archive.org/web/20220121073843/https://www.thedanishparliament.dk/~/media/pdf/publikationer/english/the-parliamentary-system-of-denmark_2011.ashx 2022-01-21 FolketingAdolph Jensen July 1918 Rigsdagsvalgene i April-Maj 1918 med Suppleringsvalg i Tiden 1915-18 https://www.dst.dk/Site/Dst/Udgivelser/GetPubFile.aspx?id=20225&sid=valg1918 Danmarks Statistik Future elections would be entirely using proportional representation with the single-member districts not affecting the party-level results. Results File:1918 Danish general election Result.svg Venstre 269646 45 +2 Social Democratic Party 262796 39 +7 Danish Social Liberal Party 189521 32 +1 Conservative People's Party 167743 22 New Industry List 11934 1 New New Right 4764 0 New Voters of 1918 4407 0 New Socialist Workers Party 1410 0 New Independent Social Democracy 1086 0 New Independents 3622 1 0 3468 +26 1218901 Nohlen & Stöver References Folketing election Denmark Category:Folketing elections